So stop feeding it and let it wither on the vine.
After the capture of Avranches on July 30, he had left Brittany to wither on the vine and begun great sweep around the German armies in Normandy, moving southeast to Orleans on the Loire and then due east toward the Seine south of Paris.
13, Mr Obama may yet pull off a political upset himself, but it is just as likely that health reform will quietly wither on the vine.